Denver tunes in State of the Union

Tuesday night’s State of the Union address was widely watched in Denver, on broadcast and cable.
KUSA-Channel 9 drew the largest audience (the same was true for NBC nationally). A total of 128,701 Denver adults, age 25-54, tuned in one of four commercial stations that carried the broadcast.
Channel 9 averaged a 3.6 rating and 9.3 share of the viewing audience.
Channel 4 averaged a 1.8 rating and 4.7 share.
Channel 7 averaged a 1.6 rating and 4.2 share.
Channel 31 averaged a .8 rating and 2.2 share.

PBS, including RMPBS-Channel 6, provided a new twist: crowd-sourced translations of the speech as part of a new open media project in partnership with Mozilla, the Participatory Culture Foundation and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Additionally, 65,975 adult Denver viewers watched via cable.
Fox News led in the cable numbers locally, with an average 1.6 rating.
MSNBC followed with a 1.3 rating.
CNN trailed with a 1.1.
The estimated total adult 25-54 audience in the Denver market was 128,056 for broadcast and 65,975 for cable — for a estimated total of 194,031 Denver viewers.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.